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OF  THE TEMPLE-OF FORTUNA VIRILIS AT ROME. 
fhat of the architrave was much more ruinouds, ifcovering the flone underneath,
wlich formed a 
-profik every different from that of the flucco. 
Palladio puts twenty-four flutings on the column, inflead of the twenty that
are there. 'He makes 
on the face of the capital the volutes oval, which areround, or only fomewhat
pendant. He marks 
a -chaplet on the afiragal of the top of the column, which is quite fmooth;
he puts darts between 
the eggs, where are-leaves.' In the piofile on the middle of the capital,
he puts an afiragal rouind 
the volutes, and there is but a fquare'lift; he puts, between the aftragal
of the top of the column 
and the quarter-round of the capital, a little fillet which is not there;
on the capital fidewife, he 
does not make the contour of the fcroll of the volute as it is, nor the leaves
that are on it, nor the 
cindure: he puts two afiragals to border -the fcroll, and there are two fquare
lifts. In the plan of 
'the angular capital he'makes the two fides of the volute parallel, whereas
they enlarge towards the 
column: on the architrave he makes the aftragal not-big enough, he puts it
not in the middle of the 
band as it is; nor makes the bottom of the bands chamfered. He makes the
feftoons of the frieze 
with fruit, whereas they are of oak-leaves. In the cornice he makes the dentils
too narrow, and cut 
too deep; he puts a pine-apple on the returning angle, 'where is but a 'fimple
dentil; above the 
dentil he puts two fmall, fillets one over the other, where is a chamfered
lift and a fillet at top; 
he om.its the ornaments inthe cymatium;,he, makes the diameter of the top
of the column too great 
by half a part, and gives not the capital its real height; he makes the'
aftragal of the top of the 
'column too fmall by feven twelfths of a part; the fillet under it alfo by
one part eleven'twelfths; 
the quarter-round of the capital too low by three parts three eighths, the
band of the volutes by 
the third of a part, the volutes too low by five parts eleven twelfths, and
too narrow by three parts 
one eighth; tht quarter-round not proje&ing enough by three parts two
thirds, and the front of the 
abacgs too narrow by four parts ; the whole entablature too low by twenty-five
parts three eighths; 
the architrave too low by three parts three quarters, the frieze too high
by three parts one third) 
and the cornice too low by twenty-four parts eleven twelfths. The firft band
of the architrave is 
too'low by one part feven eighths, the fecond with the afiragal together
too high by two parts eleven 
twenty-fourths ; the upper band likewife too high by three parts five twelfths,
the ogee too low by 
three parts one twelfth, the lift alfo too low by four parts two thirds.
 In the cornice the corona is 
too high by one par~t two thirds, the top-fillet too low by one part, the
fillet under the great cyma- 
tium by three parts; the great cymatium is likewife too low by feven parts
and a half. 
Monfieur de Chambray, who feems to have copied Palladio, has committed yet
other errors; 
as putting parfley-leaves on the ogee under the dentil, where Palladio has
put heart-rays according 
'to the truth; placing darts between the eggs where Palladio has put the
proper water-leaves; and 
makinr a fcotia on the foffit of the corona, where Palladio has put a platband
funk with a curve, 
as it is. It is true thatin the great cymatium he puts leaves which Palladio
has omitted; but he 
draws them otherwife than they are.  In fine he has made the capital too
low by two parts and a 
half, the architrave alfo too low by two parts five fixths, the frieze too
high by four parts one fourth, 
and the cornice too low by tWenty-three parts three fourths. 
T      E fourth plate contains the bafe and cornice of the bafement, the
two focles over it; the 
bafe. of the columns, and the ornaments of the frieze.  The bafe of the bafement
is re- 
markable for two equal fillets between the reverfed gola and cavetto.  In
the cornice is obfervable 
a confufed mafs of little members under the' corona, which is lefs than the
ogee, as the ogee is 
lefs than the lift.  The ornaments of the frieze fhow diftindtly every particular
already remarked 
of it. 
The diameter of the column'at bottom is two feet eleven inches, reduced into
two modules divided 
;each into thirty parts. 
Palladio has not drawn the peculiarities contained in this plate, nor given
the meafures as they 
are; which has been already obferved.                            , 
Monfleur